Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

INTERLOCH TRANSPORT 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees
Established: 17 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £186,231 £119,952 £101,130 £144,107
Donations & Legacies £26,315 £132,295 £260,292
Other Income
Investment Income £2
Total income £247,033 £294,173 £331,459 £415,685 £353,154 £406,646
Charitable activities spending £294,698 £330,227 £310,714 £400,838
Fundraising costs
Other spending
Total spending £294,821 £294,698 £330,227 £310,714 £334,647 £395,838
Surplus/deficit -£47,788 -£525 £1,232 £104,971 £18,507 £10,808
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
Purposes
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Argyll And Bute

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£225,482
Scottish Government£92,390
Wolfson Foundation£30,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Foundation Scotland£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - The Interloch Transport Project
£131,750 23/08/2022
This group will use this funding to continue providing essential accessible transport for elderly people in Cowal and Bute with moderate to high levels of disability. Support is also given to clients ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 17/12/2021
The Interloch Transport Project
Scottish Government - Interloch Transport
£60,000 04/03/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Interloch Transport
£14,190 03/11/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Interloch Transport
£5,000 21/10/2020
To continue to provide a medicine and shopping delivery service to older and vulnerable residents in the Cowal and Bute regions.
Scottish Government - Interloch Transport
£18,200 05/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Community Fund - Support the Shielded
£4,000 17/04/2020
8
This group will use the funding to provide a secure reliable food and medicine delivery service to vulnerable individuals self-isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic. The service will cover the Cowal ....more
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Interloch Transport
£5,000 17/04/2020
To contribute to operating a community transport delivery service of essential items and food stuff to self-isolating individuals across Cowal and Bute.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Interloch Transport
£30,000 05/12/2019
Purchase of accessible minibus, to provide community transport services for individuals with disabilities and older people in Cowal and Bute, Scotland
National Lottery Community Fund - Interloch Transport Service Development
£89,732 21/05/2019
36
This group will use the funding to continue to support elderly people in Cowal and Bute who have a moderate to high level physical disability or mental health condition that affects their ability to ....more
Robertson Trust - Interloch Transport Service Sessional Drivers
£45,000 12/03/2019
Interloch Transport Service Sessional Drivers
National Lottery Community Fund - Interloch Transport
£552,735 25/06/2014
60
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (4)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 60-86
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 17/10/2006, number: SC037541
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/07/2006, number: SC304949
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 9 days late,
Main office

c/o Riverbank Surgery, Kilmun, Argyll, PA23 8SE

Objectives

To provide a community transport service for such of the inhabitants of Cowal, Bute and its neighbourhood who are in need of such a service because of age, sickness or disability (mental or physical), or poverty, or because of a lack of availability of adequate and safe public passenger services

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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